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[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 113 points 2 months ago

Someone needs to teach me this trick of buying pizza with the pizza's own money.

"Dominoes hates this one weird trick."

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

You can do this with the amazing power of gun and balaclava.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago

The apostrophe actually makes it a contraction, not possessive. So they're really saying "the underpaid teacher who bought it with it is own money". I know not everyone cares, but that's how our weird language works...

[-] themusicman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, it wasn't bought... It was bough

[-] zewm@lemmy.world 68 points 2 months ago

Gotta love that the meme is pointing out how under appreciated the teacher is but then refers to the teacher as β€œit”.

The disrespect is real.

[-] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago

Playing devil's advocate here: maybe they were trying to be inclusive by not specifiying gender but haven't heard of they. The US education system is a joke in a lot of places so the (hypothetical) teacher may have to think twice before suggesting they change the it's to their. But hey, at least the apostrophe is where it should be and I'd take that as a win for education.

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 26 points 2 months ago

But there shouldn't be an apostrophe there... it's = it is, its = posessive.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The neat part about the internet being that do this on purpose to generate comments.

The other neat part is people are lazy and some suck at English or barely speak it lol.

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe they aren't from the US ?

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

If I had to guess, the meme was probably made by someone who likely has English as a secondary language. I doubt there was any disrespect intended.

[-] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 43 points 2 months ago

I once bought little prize things for my team. Nothing special, stress balls in funny shapes and things like that.

Got pulled into the office for using my own money on that one lol

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

I got a job once at this little video production company, and everyone was always trying to find pens. I'm pretty sure this one smart ass there was stealing them just because he thought it was funny that no one could ever find one...

Anyway, it was probably my second week on the job and I got pissed off because there were like 10 cups that were supposed to have pens in them at all times and I couldn't find a single one, so I went to the grocery store across the street and bought like 3 boxes of pens and filled all the cups again with the warning that these were my pens that everyone was welcome to use but if they all went missing I would start keeping them locked in my car. Everyone seemed happy to have pens again.

I got hauled into the managers office 2 hours later and questioned as to why I spent my own money on office supplies, why I didn't just requisition more pens, told never to do that again and handed a check for $11 for "stationary supplies".

That was the last time I ever bought anything for anybody at work ever again lol

[-] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Haha yes! You did the right thing though. It's all about timing. I knew my team needed the dumb prizes that week/month for the extra goodwill. You knew everyone needed goddamn pens.

How long would it have taken to get that done going through management?

"So I spoke to manager X and they said we'll have pens in a couple weeks" doesn't exactly inspire anything.

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

People had been complaining about the pens since my first day there lol all the pens I bought were gone after about a month and they all went back to complaining again. I think one of the managers supplied a single 10 pack of pens once the whole time I worked there. I just kept a box of my own in my car for me to use lol

[-] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

"Fuck it, I'll do it myself" is, in my experience, a great way to get ahead at work. No one likes the manager that doesn't look out for thier people.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Got pulled into the office for using my own money on that one lol

It was because they had a form you could have filled out and gotten it paid for without any fuss right?.....right??

[-] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah... absolutely. They would have, uh, green lit it "immediately"

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

stress balls in funny shapes and things like that.

Got pulled into the office for using my own money on that one lol

Next time don't buy squishy dicks for work colleagues.

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago
[-] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago
[-] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 months ago

Its. Teacher is a cat, this checks out.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] refalo@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

legit I've had people get angry at me for using "they" the same way everyone normally does

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Much love for these teachers. They are not paid nearly enough. I hate the corporate pizza party, but not the public school one.

Edit: I wonder if the difference in financial burden between a corporate pizza party and a public school one is a good metric

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

I'm glad that my nephew's teacher last year sent out a message to allow family to donate to those parties. I've paid for a few.

I'm also sad that it has come to that.

[-] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

I used to prostitute myself in class for people's slices

[-] Lwaxana@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago

I think it tastes better this size I will fight you on this

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 2 months ago

No, there's definitely a science to this. It's the same reason sandwiches taste better if you cut them in a triangle. The sharp points make for the perfect bite size.

[-] DeaDvey@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

um actually square sandwiches taste nicer πŸ€“

[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Growing up, my mom always, always cut my sandwiches in half to make two rectangles. I asked her why at some point, and she said when she was growing up, her mother always cut her sandwiches into triangles, and she hated it. So when she moved out, she basically vowed to only cut sandwiches into rectangles.

I hated the rectangles growing up, and cut all of mine into two triangles now that I'm on my own. πŸ˜† Funny how the world works, hahaha

[-] Tum@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

And one day your child will grow and cut theirs into rectangle, the circle of sandwich life continues.

PersonallyI I cut mine into irregular polyhedrons.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

*it tried its best

[-] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

And, to this day, I still crave that super thin wedge of pizza once in a while.

[-] Haus@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

They're good for those times when, you know, you want to eat 2,000 of something.

[-] sag@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In my country they are not underpaid but overpaid. Govt just pay them for sitting in class and eating in canting(More than Avg Income)

Why Everyone downvoting me because I said truth. Govt pay them for nothing literally every one in my class come to school for attendance

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I think the "underpaid teacher" thing isn't necessarily rooted in reality,. especially outside of the US. My wife is a teacher in the UK, and she's a head of her subject. For many years her pay was similar to mine as a software engineer, but everyone often treated her as if she was poor and that I was rich.

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

I'd like to introduce you to eastern europe

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

French teachers get payed more than 2000€ not ~500€ (still low but you can get by)

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

In Australia I don't think teachers are underpaid, but schools are absolutely underfunded. Which can often mean teachers end up spending personal money on school resources, which means their actual effective pay isn't as good as it looks from the outside.

They also work way longer hours than is reflected in their contract.

I just looked for secondary school teacher jobs in Manchester and they start at $30k for some. Many had day rates. Less than a labourer would get.

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

To be fair, outside of London you'll find that the starting salary for many degree-level jobs is around that, including jobs like software developer. I'm in Bristol, and the pay disparity is hilariously bad - a senior designer will earn less than a manager at Burger King...

[-] flerp@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Education is investment in our species future... teachers aren't billionaires, they're not overpaid.

I volunteered at a summer camp in college and we had a $30 budget to feed 15 kids + 1.

I bought four Little Caesars $5 dollar pizzas, some dollar store big sodas, and had enough money for big bags of chips.

We made it work! 😭

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

First I was mad, then I was sad.

[-] UnspokenIdiot@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 months ago

ive downloaded this meme like 5 years ago wow

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